… WAS NOTORIOUS FOR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HARASSMENT TOWARDS ALL YOUNG WOMEN IN OUR COMMUNITY.BODHI AKA NIRMAL SIDHU (AND KNOWN BY MANY OTHER NAMES) CONSTANTLY INVADED PERSONAL SPACE BE IT BY FOLLOWING WOMEN TO THEIR WORK SPACE, ENTERING BATHROOMS WITHOUT KNOCKING, CREATING SITUATION TO FIND WOMEN ALONE AND FLAT OUT GROPING.

FOR A NUMBER OF MONTHS THIS MAN HARASSED ME RELENTLESSLY MAKING MY LIFE IN THE COMMUNITY HELLISH. I WAS WATCHED AND FOLLOWED FROM MY ROOM TO THE KITCHEN, TO WORK SPACE AND AT ANY OPPORTUNITY I WAS ALONE. FEAR AND PARANOIA RESTRICTED ME FROM ENJOYING A SWIM OR AT THE LAKE OR EVEN WALK ALONE AT NIGHT KNOWING THIS MAN WAS AROUND THE CORNER WATCHING ME INDECENTLY.

ON THE WORST ACCOUNTS I WAS GROPED DURING A DANCE CELEBRATION, AND ITEMS SUCH AS SHOES, CLOTHES, INTIMATE APPAREL PANTIES, BRAS, STOLEN FROM MY ROOMS VICINITY IN ORDER TO LURE ME BACK TO HIS ROOM. I HAD A NUMBER OF UGLY FIGHTS WHEN THE PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL TORMENT OF BEING HARASSED WAS BEYOND MY LIMITS. WHEN I VOICED MY BOTHERATION DURING GROUP MEETINGS THE COMMUNITY SUPPORTED ME AND FRIENDS DID THERE BEST TO PROTECT ME.

WITH NO SENSE OF SAFETY AND PEACE I CONSIDERED TO JUST LEAVE THE ECO-VILLAGE AND SACRIFICE MY DESIRE TO LIVE IN OZENCOCOM. THE ONLY WAY I WAS GRANTED FREEDOM FROM THE CONSTANT HARASSMENT WAS WHEN THIS MAN WAS FINALLY THROWN OUT FOR BAD BEHAVIOUR. I AM GRATEFUL I NEVER HAD TO SEE HIM AGAIN AND I WARN ALL WOMEN TO REMAIN CAUTIOUS, ALERT AND DISTANT FROM SUCH AN AGGRESSIVE AND PERVERTED PERSON. IT WAS NOT SURPRISED TO READ ABOUT WOMEN FROM AUSTRALIA REPORTING ACCOUNTS OF GROPING AND HARASSMENT DURING A MEDITATION CAMP IN THE FAR PAST.

I WAS SILENT ABOUT THESE INCIDENTS FOR LONG SINCE IT IS PAINFUL, EMBARRASSING AND SHAMEFUL AS WOMEN TO ENDURE AND REPEAT SUCH EXPERIENCES. I REQUEST YOU TO TREAT THIS AS A COMPLAINT AGAINST BODHI FOR HARASSMENT AND TAKE SUITABLE ACTION AT THE EARLIEST.

HE WAS VERY ANNOYING FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, HE WOULD STICK TO YOU AND YOU WOULDN’T KNOW HOW TO GET RID OF THIS GUY.

HE COULD KNOCK AT MY DOOR AT NIGHT FOR SOME SMALL REASON THAT HE MADE UP AS AN EXCUSE. IT WAS VERY ANNOYING BECAUSE I MADE IT QUITE CLEAR THAT I DIDN’T WANT TO BE CLOSE TO HIM OR TO HAVE ANY KIND OF RELATIONSHIPS UNLESS IT WAS SOME PRACTICAL MATTER THAT HAD TO BE SOLVED. HE USED TO PEEP THROUGH THE WINDOW OF THE COTTAGE WHERE I LIVED. HE USED TO COME TO THE PLACE WHERE I WAS TAKING A MASSAGE USING AGAIN SOME EXCUSE THAT HE URGENTLY NEEDED SOMETHING FROM ME OR FROM THE PERSON WHO WAS GIVING ME MASSAGE. IT WAS SO DISGUSTING AND I ONLY WANTED TO PUSH HIM AWAY BECAUSE OF HIS SNEAKY AND DIRTY WAYS OF APPROACHING ME OR OTHER GIRLS. IT WAS A BIG RELIEF WHEN HE FINALLY LEFT AND I NEVER SAW HIM AGAIN. I FELT THAT COULD BREATH FREELY FINALLY.

BESIDES THAT HE WAS SMOKING MARIHUANA QUITE OFTEN AND WOULD NEVER BE FOCUSED WHICH MADE IT EVEN MORE DIFFICULT TO DISCUSS PRACTICAL MUNDANE THINGS.

I NEED TO TELL YOU ABOUT BODHI SINGH SADHU FROM INDIA. MOST ANNOYING AND DESPERATE SEXUAL PEVERT IN OUR HOUSES. I THINK EVERY GIRL WAS HUNTED BY HIM. I WAS SHARING ROOM WITH ANOTHER GIRL LILA AND WE BOTH SUFFERED A LOT, BECAUSE EVERY DAY HE BEEN LOOKING FOR NEW EXCUSE TO COME TO OUR ROOM, EVEN COMING DURING WE TAKE A SHOWER, AS WELL AT LATE NIGHT HOURS, I WAS SHOUTING AT HIM AND TELLING HIM TO GET OUT AND NEVER COME AGAIN, BUT HE WOULD COME BACK ANYWAYS USING RIDICULOUS STORIES JUST TO GET CLOSE TO US. I THINK HE JUST CAN’T LISTEN AND PERCEIVE, LIVING IN HIS OWN WEIRD WORLD. ONCE HE STOLE MY UNDERWEAR (PANTIE, BRA) AND DRESS, I WENT TO HIS ROOM TO GET IT, HE WAS KEEPING THEM WITH HIS CLOTHES, I YELLED AT HIM AND LEFT, HOWEVER HARASSING NEVER STOPPED, AND HE HAVE DONE HUNDREDS OF THOSE DISGUSTING THINGS AND STEALING GIRLS PANTIES.

…INSTEAD IT STEMS FROM MY COMPASSION AND OUTRAGE FOR THE MANNER IN WHICH A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF WOMEN’S PRIVACY AND BOUNDARIES HAVE BEEN ALLEGEDLY VIOLATED BY BODHI, AT BOTH THE COMMUNE AND AWAY FROM THE COMMUNE. IT ALSO CONCERNS ME BECAUSE I FEEL/THINK/INTUIT

THERE WILL BE OTHER WOMEN “VICTIMS”

OVER THE PAST TWO WEEKS, AT LEAST 6 WOMEN ON THE LAND HAVE COMMUNICATED TO ME THAT BODHI HAS EITHER WALKED IN THEIR LIVING AREA UNANNOUNCED OR AFTER A VERY BRIEF KNOCK, WITHOUT WAITING FOR A RESPONSE FROM THEM (I.E., IN A CUBE OR WHILE IN TULUM ROOM THIS PAST WEEKEND), WHILE ANOTHER WOMAN WAS GIVING THEM A MASSAGE OR WHILE THEY WERE IN THE PROCESS OF TAKING A SHOWER. THREE OF THE SITUATIONS INVOLVED BODHI ALLEGEDLY WALKING IN ON WOMEN WHILE IN THE PROCESS OF TAKING A SHOWER AND AT LEAST THREE OCCASIONS WHEN WOMEN WERE GIVING ANOTHER WOMAN A MASSAGE. ONE OF THE SITUATION ALLEGEDLY WAS LONG AGO AT ONE OF THE HOUSES WHEN A WOMAN WAS TAKING A SHOWER.

ONE OF THE WOMEN ALLEGEDLY HAS HAD ONGOING PROBLEMS WITH BODHI FOLLOWING HER AROUND THE LAND, AND UNTIL RECENTLY, HE WOULD WALK INTO HER CUBE WHERE ANOTHER WOMAN LIVES ALLEGEDLY UP TO 4-6 TIMES DAILY.

ONE PERSON AT THE MEETING SHARED THAT HE WAS AWARE OF SOME REALLY VERY UGLY THINGS THAT BODHI HAS DONE BUT WAS NOT GOING TO SHARE IT AT THE MEETING. I ASKED THIS PERSON LATER WHAT HE MEANT AND HE DID NOT SHARE BECAUSE HE FELT THE WOMAN WAS ASHAMED WHAT HAD HAPPENED AND WANTED TO KEEP IT PRIVATE. I CAN’T HELP TO THINK WHAT IT COULD HAVE BEEN.

IT IS A HIGH PROBABILITY THAT HIS BEHAVIOR WILL BE REPEATED WITH OTHER WOMEN. I SEE HIM AS PREDATORY AND UNAPOLOGETIC WITH REGARD TO VULNERABLE AND UNASSERTIVE WOMEN.

….WE RECEIVED MANY COMPLAINTS OF STALKING, BULLYING AND SUGGESTIVE SEXUAL HARASSMENT. IT WAS DIFFICULT TO HANDLE THIS SITUATION AND UNFORTUNATELY OUT OF KINDNESS TRIED TO EXPLAIN TO HIM, UNDERSTANDING THAT HE CAME FROM A REPRESSED INDIAN VILLAGE BACKGROUND AS IT IS OUR POLICY TO HELP AND UNDERSTAND EVERYONE SITUATION. IN SPITE OF OUR KINDNESS IT LED TO A LOT OF FIGHTS BETWEEN THE GIRLS AND HIM, AND WE HAD TO CONFRONT HIM AND HE SLOWLY SLOWLY STARTED ALSO SECRETLY SMOKING MARIJUANA REGULARLY AS OUR PLACE IS STRICT DETOX AND HEALTH ZONE WE CONFRONTED HIM AND HE BECAME MORE FRUSTRATED VIOLENT AND ABUSIVE THREATENING WE HAD TO FORCIBLY ASK HIM TO LEAVE.

FEW MONTHS LATER WE RECEIVED INFORMATION THROUGH A FRIEND THAT HE WAS CAUGHT BY THE POLICE AND ARRESTED IN CHETUMAL, WE LEARNT THAT HE WAS IN JAIL 4-5 MONTHS AND FINALLY DEPORTED BACK TO INDIA.

SINCE THEN HE HAS BECOME VERY REVENGEFUL AND THREATENING TO DESTROY THE COMMUNITY PUTTING UP PHOTOGRAPHS ON FACEBOOK OF SHOOTING PRACTICE WITH GUNS. HIS COMMENTS ARE ISLAMIC TERRORIST STYLE MESSAGE JUSTIFYING KILLING AS REVENGE.

IT IS CLEAR HE WAS TRYING TO SCARE OUR COMMUNITY WITH THIS TYPE PHOTOGRAPHS DIRECTED TO THREATEN US. HE HAS BECOME TOTALLY DERANGED AND DANGEROUS THINKING THAT HE HAS THE EXTRA JUDICIARY POWER TO TAKE JUSTICE IN HIS HANDS AGAINST US.

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